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ten-pounder|ˌtɛnˈpaʊndə(r)|
[Parasynthetically f. ten pound(s + -er1.]
1. a. A thing (e.g. a ball, a fish) weighing ten pounds; spec. a fish, Elops saurus, about three feet long, inhabiting the warmer parts of the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans; also called Big-eyed Herring. b. A cannon throwing a ten-pound shot.
1695Lond. Gaz. No. 3112/3, 69 Pieces of Cannon,..viz... 9 ten Pounders. 1699W. Dampier Voy. II. ii. 71 Tenpounders are shaped like Mullets, but are so full of very small stiff Bones..that you can hardly eat them. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 407 The ‘Big-eyed Herring’ or ‘Ten-pounder’, Elops saurus.
2. Something of the value of, or rated at, ten pounds.
a. A ten-pound note.
b. A voter in a borough who was enfranchised in virtue of occupying property of the annual value of ten pounds.
a.1755Johnson s.v. Pounder, A note or bill is called a twenty pounder or ten pounder. 1829Marryat F. Mildmay iv, I pocketed the little donation—it was a ten-pounder. 1844Ainsworth's Mag. VI. 354, I feared I should very soon be obliged to change..my ten-pounder. 1888C. M. Yonge Our New Mistress xii. 109 He took it from me as if I were paying him his wages, and..said..a crisp ten-pounder was a handier thing to drag about than a puling woman.
b.1833R. Southey Let. 13 Jan. in J. Aitken Eng. Lett. of XIX Century (1946) 147 The ten-pounders have sent just such members as might have been expected to Parldemonium from the great manufacturing towns. 1834Oxford Univ. Mag. I. 46 No candidate would venture to present himself before a body of ten-pounders. 1880Disraeli Endym. xvii, There were several old boroughs where the freemen still outnumbered the ten-pounders.
Hence ten-ˈpoundery nonce-wd., the body of ten-pound householders.
1840Fraser's Mag. XXI. 237 He was hanged to oblige the tenpoundery of the day. |